Karnataka Assembly polls: BJP’s announces first list of 189 candidates with 52 new faces

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, April 11, 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released the first list of 189 candidates who will be contesting the Karnataka Assembly polls. Of the 189 candidates, 52 are new faces who have been given the tickets. The list includes 32 candidates from the OBC community, 30 from SC and 16 from the ST community. The list has 31 PhD holders and 31 candidates who have post-graduate degrees.

After the list was released, Karnataka CM Bommai took to Twitter and said, "There is an atmosphere in favour of double engine government rule all over the state and this time we are going to form an absolute majority government."

ನವ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದದಿಂದ ನವ ಭಾರತವನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಲು ಮತ್ತು ಸಮಗ್ರ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಸರ್ವಾಂಗೀಣ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಗಾಗಿ @BJP4Karnatakaದ 189 ಸಮರ್ಥ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಗಳನ್ನು ಅಂತಿಮಗೊಳಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ರಾಜ್ಯದೆಲ್ಲೆಡೆ ಡಬಲ್ ಇಂಜಿನ್ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಆಡಳಿತದ ಪರವಾದ ವಾತಾವರಣವಿದ್ದು, ಈ ಬಾರಿ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಬಹುಮತದ ಸರ್ಕಾರವನ್ನು ನಾವು ರಚಿಸಲಿದ್ದೇವೆ.
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— Basavaraj S Bommai (@BSBommai) April 11, 2023

Apart from this, the list includes 8 doctors, social activists and women. The party has also given tickets to a retired IAS and an IPS officer.

Bhaskar Rao, a former IPS and Bengaluru Commissioner, will contest from the Chamrajpet constituency.

R Ashok will contest Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on the Kanakpura seat, and CP Yogeshwar will fight former chief minister Kumaraswamy from Channapatna.

While former Deputy Chief Minister Lakshman Savadi missed a ticket from Athani, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will contest from the Shiggaon constituency.

The list was released during a press conference by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Mansukh Mandaviya and other BJP leaders.